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Subject:

Atypical development in communications and cognition

Organization:

FSW_Fac. algemeenSW OZ DCC COSW OZ BSI OLOSW OZ DCC BO

Journal title:

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volume:

vol. 24

Issue:

iss. 4

Page start:

p. 878

Page end:

p. 887

Abstract:

How do native listeners process grammatical errors that are frequent in non-native speech? We investigated whether the neural correlates of syntactic processing are modulated by speaker identity. ERPs to gender agreement errors in sentences spoken by a native speaker were compared with the same errors spoken by a non-native speaker. In line with previous research, gender violations in native speech resulted in a P600 effect (larger P600 for violations in comparison with correct sentences), but when the same violations were produced by the non-native speaker with a foreign accent, no P600 effect was observed. Control sentences with semantic violations elicited comparable N400 effects for both the native and the non-native speaker, confirming no general integration problem in foreign-accented speech. The results demonstrate that the P600 is modulated by speaker identity, extending our knowledge about the role of speaker's characteristics on neural correlates of speech processing.

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